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Sam Rohrer
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UNG Professor. LSU Alum. Dad. Curious mind posting about politics, pirates, tech, cats, and whatever else catches my eye.
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Dear Penn State,
Please take Brian Kelly. He’s great. Nothing wrong here. Promise.
— LSU fans

#CFB #GeauxTigers #CoachingCarousel
Made my first hot sauce. Conditional success. If you get a bottle, it’s because I thought you’d enjoy the adventure (or at least survive it).

#HomemadeHotSauce #KitchenExperiments
In 2024, Gallup found 93% said they’d vote for a woman president. But a list experiment during the Harris campaign showed 16% secretly uncomfortable.

That’s double the admitted bias—helping explain why the U.S. still hasn’t elected a woman president
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#AcademicSky
Do Voters Support a Female President? Evidence from a List Experiment - Semra Sevi, Can Mekik, 2025
Public opinion polls indicate that a significant portion of the American public would be willing to vote for a qualified female presidential candidate. However,...
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My desire to buy books and my time to read them exist on two completely diverging planes of reality.
When 66–85% of disaster survivors’ calls go unanswered, we’re not just facing an administrative lapse—we’re witnessing a failure of public service delivery. Cutting contracts without backup plans doesn’t streamline government. It undermines it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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I’m genuinely shocked by how damaging the Senate’s budget bill will be for rural hospitals and nursing homes. Cuts framed as savings still have a real impact. #HealthPolicy #BigBeautifulBill
From Ukraine to Iran to U.S. domestic politics, we seem one or two decisions away from a moment that future filmmakers will dramatize with ominous strings. Let’s hope for a success montage, not a cautionary tale. #HistoricalInflectionPoint
Trump says Walmart should “eat the tariffs.” But if companies absorb the cost, prices stay flat and demand doesn’t shift. So what are the tariffs really doing? They start to look less like a jobs policy—and more like a quiet, long-term tax.
#Tariffs #TradePolicy
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Trump tells Walmart to 'eat the tariffs' instead of raising prices
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Walmart (WMT.N) should "eat the tariffs" instead of blaming duties imposed on imported goods for the retailer's increase prices.
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The Houthis aren’t pirates. UNCLOS defines piracy as violence at sea for private ends. The Houthis are fighting a political war. Perhaps closer to buccaneers: irregular maritime actors with quasi-state backing from Iran using violence to disrupt trade and extract concessions

#Houthis #MaritimeCrime
It’s odd hearing Scott Bessent on Meet the Press argue that higher prices are fine as long as wages grow faster—that’s essentially the same argument Biden’s team made. Especially rich coming from a team that insists Biden was economically inept. #EconTalk #TariffLife
It’s not like we just had a botched FAFSA roll out… oh wait…
Deep Seek AI’s sudden debut feels like China trolling the U.S. tech bros—especially after that $500B in ai infrastructure investment announcement here last week.
Take it a step farther. Post tenure. I interviewed at a uni that still didn’t have it. But that is an outlier. It would play a role on work expectations outside of promotion.
It sounds like winning. Review tenure requirements and how much input faculty have at both.
A good real world example of stopping extremism from mainstreaming.
I have to admit, I’m torn on online learning days vs. outright cancellations. Getting a note at 10:30 pm saying everything must move online for tomorrow feel like... short notice.
#AcademicSky #OnlineLearning #OnlineVCancel
Had a great time at the Southern Political Science Association! Great feedback, engaging panels, and fantastic weather. Thanks to everyone who made it such a successful conference. #SPSA #AcademicSky
Not going to lie this delta ad comes off more “I’m judging you” than aspirational.
That’s all more than fair. I’m considering it simply because some of the texts I use don’t seem to be in the hive mind yet. As a result a lot of AI responses are related to the question but wrong.